Roger Breu, Henk van der Valk

PDW Specialists, Microsoft Corporation

2.5 years ago, Microsoft introduced the SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse appliance (PDW); SQL Server 2012 PDW (recently announced) has evolved to fully embrace the new world of data. It can scale out to handle requirements of virtually any size, perform seamless analysis on datasets sourced from unstructured and semi-structured data from Hadoop, and provide next-generation query performance improvements of up to 100 times over legacy data warehouse deployments.

Simple to deploy, SQL Server 2012 PDW is delivered as a pre-built appliance with software, hardware, and networking components already pre-installed. SQL Server 2012 PDW is also engineered to deliver optimal value by providing the lowest price per terabyte of any high-end warehouse appliance offering in the market today.

In this workshop we will show you what PDW is about and why it helps to boost your DWH Performance and eases administration. We will provide an architectural overview as well as many demos to show you the power of PDW. During the workshop day we will cover many customer implementations and insights coming from proof-of-concepts who can help you to evaluate the right solution for your scalable end-to-end BI/DWH platform including integration of “Big Data”.